Water Management Directorate

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In the GDR, the Water Management Directorates (WWD) were the state institutions responsible for the operation of water management systems, water management and bodies of water , comparable to today's water association .

The history of water management in the GDR is characterized by an increasing concentration over the years. On July 1, 1958, the central office for water management in Berlin was established, which initially had seven water management departments (WWD) under the responsibility of managing surface rivers and based on the criteria of the river's catchment areas. For their part, they replaced the 15 “ VEB (Z) water management” that had existed since 1952 , which in turn were affiliated to a VVB for water management.

  1. (I) Coast - Warnow - Peene based in Stralsund
  2. (II) Havel - Nuthe ( Potsdam )
  3. (III) Spree - Oder - Neisse ( Cottbus )
  4. (IV) Upper Elbe - Mulde ( Dresden )
  5. (V) Saale - White Elster ( Hall )
  6. (VI) Werra - Gera - Unstrut (Erfurt)
  7. (VII) Middle Elbe - Bode - Sude - Elde ( Magdeburg )

In 1972 the Ministry for Environment and Water Management was formed, in the course of which the water management departments were further centralized and formed from seven five: The water management department Obere Elbe - Mulde became WWD V as "Water Management Department Obere Elbe - Neisse" in 1975 and was also central for the coordination responsible with the former Czechoslovakia, the coordination with Poland was the responsibility of WWD II Oder / Havel.

  1. (I) coast (seat: Stralsund)
  2. (II) Oder / Havel (seat: Potsdam)
  3. (III) Lower Elbe (seat: Magdeburg)
  4. (IV) Saale / Werra (seat: Halle)
  5. (V) Obere Elbe / Neisse (seat: Dresden)

The building of the former water management department Obere Elbe-Neisse is, for example, on Ostra-Allee in Dresden. WWD V was dissolved on September 30, 1991, which as the year (1991) should also apply to the other four WWD.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Description of the archives on archiv.sachsen.de , accessed on May 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Henriette van der Wall, R. Andreas Kraemer: The water management in the GDR. Study on behalf of the Hans Böckler Foundation, January 1991, p. 47. online , accessed on May 2, 2018.